Having Mounting Surface And Filaments Constructed From Common Piece Of Material Patents (Class 24/452)
  • Patent number: 11533971
    Abstract: In a molded surface fastener in which an engaging element includes at least two engaging pawl portions protruded outward, a plurality of the engaging elements is disposed in a line along a machine direction to form an element row, a plurality of the element rows is arranged side by side in a cross direction, each of the engaging elements has, as the engaging pawl portions, at least a pair of symmetrical engaging pawl portions which are disposed each other at symmetrical positions in the cross direction and are respectively protruded in the cross direction sides, and a plurality of the engaging elements is arranged in a staggered pattern. Thereby, the molded surface fastener can appropriately and stably exert desired performance such as peel strength with respect to more types of non-woven fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Fukuhara, Ryosuke Tanimoto, Makoto Takekawa, Shoichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11470922
    Abstract: Provided is a molded surface fastener having an improved balance between durability against repeated attachment and detachment operations and peeling strength. A molded surface fastener made of a thermoplastic resin, includes: a flat plate-shaped base portion; and a plurality of engaging elements protruding from one main surface of the base portion. Each engaging element includes: a stem upstanding from the main surface; and an engaging head portion formed at an upper end portion of the stem, the head portion including a projection portion extending mainly in a direction perpendicular to a molding direction as viewed in a planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Michihata, Yui Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11453193
    Abstract: Various apparatuses are disclosed including those that have curvature arresting properties. According to one example, the apparatus can optionally include a flexible first film, a second film and a first plurality of features. The first plurality of features can be disposed between the first film and the second film At least some of the first plurality of features are spaced apart from one another by a gap when the first film is not subject to an applied bending force or is subject to the applied bending force below a predetermined magnitude in one or both of the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, and at least some of the first plurality of features contact one another to arrest a curvature of the first film when the applied bending force is at or above the predetermined magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Dylan T. Cosgrove, Fay T. Salmon, Michael R. Gorman, Alex P. Beane, Scott M. Niemi, Vincent Jusuf
  • Patent number: 11446968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tire including: at least one pin protruding from an inner circumferential surface of a tread portion of the tire toward a tire radial direction inner side; and a noise damper caught by the at least one pin, wherein the at least one pin has a distal end with a diameter smaller than that of portions other than the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Watanabe, Shin Sukegawa
  • Patent number: 11395528
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a resin article having a plurality of filamentous projections that are formed in a contact surface of a resin article body may include a thrusting step to thrust acute-angled leading edges of plate-shaped metal parts into the contact surface of the resin article body, a heating step to heat the plate-shaped metal parts before or during the thrusting step, and a pulling out step to pull out the plate-shaped metal parts in a condition in which portions of the resin material of the resin article body is melted around the leading edges of the plate-shaped metal parts and in which melted resin portions are formed on unmelted portions of the resin material of the resin article body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Rina Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11338658
    Abstract: A vehicle cover assembly comprising; a flexible cover; one or more side rails; and a fastener assembly that is secured to a vehicle bed comprising; a cover fastener that is on one or more edge regions of the flexible cover; and a side rail fastener with one or more rows of fasteners comprising; a plurality of dual hooks on the base that releasably connect with the cover fastener of the flexible cover; and a plurality of spacers between the plurality of dual hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TRUXEDO, INC.
    Inventor: Michael R. Spencer
  • Patent number: 11291275
    Abstract: In this molded surface fastener, an engaging element includes a columnar stem portion, and micro pawl portions protruding outward from an upper end outer peripheral edge of the stem portion in a plan view of the engaging elements. A pawl width dimension of the micro pawl portions is smaller than a line segment connecting two points on the upper end outer peripheral edge of the stem portion. The micro pawl portions protrude toward a base portion. This molded surface fastener has a high peel strength and a shear strength with respect to a female surface fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukuhara, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Makoto Takekawa, Takahiro Fuse
  • Patent number: 11253683
    Abstract: A valve for treating ascites, the valve comprising: a body having a distal end, a proximal end and a lumen extending therebetween; at least one valve element disposed in the lumen of the body, the at least one valve element being a one-way valve element configured to permit the passage of fluid in a single direction through the lumen of the body; and at least one connection element provided on at least one of the distal end and the proximal end of the body, wherein the at least one connection element is configured to connect the body of the valve to the side wall of a blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ewimed
    Inventors: Albertus Scheule, Egon Wiest
  • Patent number: 11143219
    Abstract: An article includes a molded plastic body that is comprised of a main body portion and a locator pin that projects from the main body portion. The locator pin includes a base at the main body and a pin that extends from the base and has a tip end. The base and the pin are of different sizes so as to form a ledge that faces away from the main body portion. The pin includes a parallel-sided portion that is located within a zone that starts at the base and terminates short of the tip end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NYX, INC.
    Inventor: Steven F. Spaleny
  • Patent number: 11089845
    Abstract: In this molded surface fastener, plural engaging elements having a stem portion and an engaging head portion formed integrally on the stem portion are standing on the base portion, at least one pawl portion having a pawl width dimension narrower than a width dimension at a boundary between the stem portion and the engaging head portion is protruded on an outer peripheral edge part of the engaging head portion, and a back surface of pawl of the pawl portion is formed at different angles with respect to a back surface of head portion of the engaging head portion. Such a molded surface fastener of the present invention has a substantial engaging force with respect to a female surface fastener and can make a texture of its surface comfortable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukuhara, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Takahiro Fuse, Isamu Michihata, Yui Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11083252
    Abstract: A fastening tape includes a base, at least one hook, and at least one rib. The at least one hook includes a stem and an engagement portion extending from an upper end of the stem in a longitudinal direction. The stem includes a leading edge and a trailing edge in the longitudinal direction, and a center of the at least one hook is between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The at least one rib is laterally adjacent to the at least one hook, and a center of the at least one rib is offset from the center of the at least one hook in the longitudinal direction towards the leading edge of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Fleming, Wolfgang Coronel, Tsuyoshi Minato
  • Patent number: 11034063
    Abstract: A retaining device includes a base (51) extending in a longitudinal direction and presenting a top face (511) and a bottom face (512); and a plurality of retaining elements extending from the top face (511) of the base (51), each of the retaining elements being formed by a stem (52) surmounted by a head (53), the stem (52) having a bottom end (521) connected to the base (51), and a top end (522) opposite from the bottom end (521), the head (53) surmounting the top end (522) of the stem (52), and having a bottom face facing towards the base and a top face opposite from the bottom face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventors: Damien Bosser, Anthony Mahe
  • Patent number: 10994453
    Abstract: A retaining device includes a base (51) extending in a longitudinal direction and presenting a top face (511) and a bottom face (512); and a plurality of retaining elements extending from the top face (511) of the base (51), each of the retaining elements being formed by a stem (52) surmounted by a head (53), the stem (52) having a bottom end (521) connected to the base (51), and a top end (522) opposite from the bottom end (521), the head (53) surmounting the top end (522) of the stem (52), and having a bottom face facing towards the base and a top face opposite from the bottom face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventors: Damien Bosser, Anthony Mahe
  • Patent number: 10821814
    Abstract: A vehicle cover assembly comprising; a flexible cover; one or more side rails; and a fastener assembly that is secured to a vehicle bed comprising; a cover fastener that is on one or more edge regions of the flexible cover; and a side rail fastener with one or more rows of fasteners comprising; a plurality of dual hooks on the base that releasably connect with the cover fastener of the flexible cover; and a plurality of spacers between the plurality of dual hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TRUXEDO, INC.
    Inventor: Michael R. Spencer
  • Patent number: 10588755
    Abstract: A modular kit and/or method buildings a cage for spondylodesis, wherein the kit and/or method comprises at least two plates, wherein the plates comprise a biocompatible material and each comprise a planar structure and a plurality of pins projecting from the planar structure of the plates, wherein the pins each comprise at least one latching element, wherein the pins are elastically deformable and are arranged sufficiently close to each other on the planar structure such that pressing planar structures studded with pins of several plates onto each other causes the latching elements of different plates to snap into each other, wherein at least two of the at least two plates comprise a recess with a diameter of at least 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
  • Patent number: 10524547
    Abstract: A molded surface fastener has engagement regions in which engaging elements are disposed in an erect manner and space regions with no engaging elements, the engagement regions and the space regions alternating in the longitudinal direction. Each space region has a pair of left and right vertical wall portions that are disposed on a substrate portion in an erect manner and a convex rib portion that protrudes from the center of the substrate portion in the width direction, and the convex rib portion is integrally connected to a main lateral wall portion disposed in the width direction of the engagement region. By implementing a simple cutting process, this molded surface fastener can be easily adapted to usages in which the fastener has to be in a curved shape bending in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Okuda, Mineto Terada, Shinichi Imai, Tsuyoshi Minato
  • Patent number: 10278876
    Abstract: A male surface fastener has a sheet having a main surface, and a group of engagement elements in which the engagement elements are regularly arranged, the engagement element having a pillar that stands on the main surface of the sheet and an engagement head that is expanded along the main surface from the top end of the pillar, wherein 0.05?S2/S1?0.15 is satisfied where S1 represents an area of the main surface which corresponds to a region in which the group of engagement elements is arranged, and S2 represents a sum of areas of the top surfaces of the engagement heads of the engagement elements of the group of engagement elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumi Fujisaki, Masayuki Naohara
  • Patent number: 10016022
    Abstract: A hook fastener includes a stem having two lateral edges, a first surface, and a second surface. A cap extends from an upper end of the stem, and the cap includes an upper surface, a first end, a second end, and a pair of overhanging portions. The upper surface of the cap is sloped between the first end and the second end. The first and second ends are at opposite longitudinal ends of the cap, and each overhanging portion extends in a lateral direction from the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakada, Chieko Arai, Ryosuke Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 9993374
    Abstract: An absorbent personal care article, such as a sanitary napkin or incontinence pad, having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline and including a pair of opposed first and second wings extending along the longitudinal sides of the article. The first wing includes two or more peaks with furrows there between and the second wing includes one or more peaks. The peaks of the first and second wings are sized and positioned on the article such that when folded under the article and around the wearer's undergarments, the peak of the second wing extends across the longitudinal centerline of the article and into the furrow of the first wing. The inter-meshing wings help wearer's properly don the articles, improve the attachment of the article to the wearer's garment and/or reduce unwanted twisting or bunching of the article during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Luciana V. Mercer, Rogerio B. Bastos, Paula C. Winkel
  • Patent number: 9790973
    Abstract: A fastener member (10) including: a base portion (11) having a surface (15); and a plurality of locking members (12) vertically provided on the surface, the locking members locking with a subject to be coupled so as to mechanically couple to the subject to be coupled; wherein the locking member includes a shaft portion (20), projecting from the base portion, having a pair of side faces (22A, 22B) that are opposite each other in a first direction (x) and, as viewed from the surface, diverge in a second direction (y) orthogonal to the first direction, and a barbed portion (21) provided on each of the pair of side faces; and, as viewed from the surface, the barbed portion provided on at least one of the side faces of the pair of side faces extends in a direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Shuhei Nisogi
  • Patent number: 9700466
    Abstract: A hygiene article closure tab, for use with a hygiene article such as a diaper, adult incontinence articles or feminine hygiene articles, is disclosed. The closure tab comprises a backing layer having a region adapted to carry at least one mechanical fastening means and a region adapted to form a fingerlift portion, the fingerlift portion being free from any fastening means. A first mechanical fastening means is carried on the backing layer adjacent the fingerlift portion, and has a width w1. A second mechanical fastening means is carried on the backing layer, and has a width w2 and is separated from the first mechanical fastening means by a separation distance d1. The width w1 of the first mechanical fastening means is greater than the separation distance d1, and the width w2 of the second mechanical fastening means is greater than the width w1 of the first mechanical fastening means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Comany
    Inventors: Volker Hauschildt, Ralf G. Oertel, Peter Kitzer
  • Patent number: 9694538
    Abstract: Articles are provided, having a multilayer structure including (a) a first layer formed from polyolefin and including undercut features formed on and extending from an integral backing; (b) a second layer including an adhesive having a Shore D hardness of greater than 59 when cured; and (c) a third layer including a substrate. The second layer is interlocked with the undercut features, the third layer is adhered to the adhesive, and the second layer is disposed between the first layer and the third layer. A method is also provided including (a) depositing a polyolefin resin into a mold cavity to form a first layer including undercut features; (b) demolding the first layer from the mold cavity at a rate of at least 150 millimeters per minute; (c) applying a curable adhesive to the undercut features to form a second layer attached to the first layer; and (d) attaching a third layer including a substrate to the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Joseph D. Rule, Mario A. Perez, Kevin M. Lewandowski, Robert A. Follensbee
  • Patent number: 9669774
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a reconfigurable vehicle interior assembly is provided. The assembly includes a trim member including a plurality of first elastically deformable mating members and a vehicle interior carrier component including a plurality of second elastically deformable mating members. Each of the first elastically deformable mating members matingly engages with at least one of the second elastically deformable mating members in order to couple the trim member to the vehicle interior carrier component. The first and second elastically deformable mating members collectively form a plurality of elastic averaging couplings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Susan M. Smyth, Mark Allen Smith, Robert Bruce Tilove
  • Patent number: 9597823
    Abstract: Object molded in thermoplastic material in any shape having an outer surface from which protrudes at least one hook in one piece with the molded object, in particular a hook field, the molded object and the hook(s) having been formed by injection molding, each hook comprising a base part and a head or hooking part protruding from the base part and being delimited by first and second lateral surfaces each extending on the outer surface of the molded object, being separated from each other by an intermediate surface forming the edge of the hook, the curve sections, defined by the intersections of at least one of the first and/or second lateral surfaces with planes which are in parallel with the base plane from which the hook protrudes and which are at given distances h from this base plane, have a curvature which varies as a function of the distance h, the curvature of the curve section for h=0 (the base plane and said parallel plane merging) being greater than the curvature of at least one curve section for a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventors: Antony Mahe, Quresh Sachee
  • Patent number: 9474339
    Abstract: A connecting device for manufacturing a peeling-stress-resistant connection between two components. The connecting device includes a carrier, which has a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The connecting device further includes a plurality of hook and loop elements which extend both from the first and the second surface of the carrier and each have at their free ends facing away from the first or the second surface of the carrier a hook and loop head, which is arranged to enter into a hook and loop connection with a component comprising a fiber-reinforced composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Soeffker, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 9468266
    Abstract: An automatic gripping closure device comprising a first element with hooks comprising a first base band and at least two first hooks originating from the first band and placed in at least one row of first hooks (9), each first hook being delimited by two faces (11, 12) that are mutually opposed and transverse to the direction of the at least one row of first hooks and at least one coupling portion (13, 14) protruding laterally from the stem, preferably at the top of the latter, while extending in a direction transverse to the direction of the row, and a second element with hooks comprising a second base band and at least two second hooks originating from the second band and placed in at least one row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Ducauchuis, Thierry Marche
  • Patent number: 9278469
    Abstract: One-piece article obtained by injection molding, with at least one injection point, said article comprising a main body (20), having a body volume defined by the space within a surface forming an outer envelope, and at least one hook (21), preferably a field of hooks, obtained from the same molding of the main body of the molded article, the hook or each hook having a stem of longitudinal axis and a catching part projecting laterally from the stem, characterized in that the volume of the hooks is between 100,000 and 100,000,000 times smaller than the volume of the body, and in that the width, or smallest transverse dimension, of the stems, measured transversely to the longitudinal axis, is smaller than the thickness of the main body, measured along the longitudinal axis of the stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: APLIX
    Inventor: Anthony Mahe
  • Patent number: 9271547
    Abstract: The molded hook and loop fastener has multiple hook and loop fastener parts on which multiple engaging elements are disposed, and a connection member for connecting the hook and loop fastener parts. The hook and loop fastener parts have fixing parts which fix the connection member to backings. The backings have forward and rearward extensions that extend in the longitudinal direction from the positions where the fixing parts are disposed. The dimension in the longitudinal direction of the connection member at a connection part is set to be longer than the minimum interval between adjacent hook and loop fastener parts, thereby allowing the molded hook and loop fastener to be bent easily in the width direction, and allowing the forward and rearward extensions to prevent foam resin material from directly hitting lateral walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Mineto Terada, Shinichi Imai
  • Patent number: 9198483
    Abstract: A system of attachment surface structures that find their best use in the form of repeatedly removable straps and bands for securing one object to another. The surfaces are preferably constructed of narrow sheets of flexible polymer plastic materials having generally high tensile strength. A first embodiment includes shaped parallel ridges on one surface that interlock with mating parallel ridges on an opposing surface. These parallel ridges may be double sided (interlocking on both sides of each shaped ridge with the next shaped ridge on either side) or single sided (interlocking with a single ridge oriented 180 degrees from the first). Further embodiments include an array of shaped posts of various regular geometric shapes that interlock with an opposing array of identical posts. Further embodiments include parallel ridge pairs that interlock with parallel post-type ridges that lend themselves to extrusion manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas M. Adams, James D. Benner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9119443
    Abstract: A method of making a sheet-form loop-engageable fastener product includes placing a layer of staple fibers on a first side of a substrate, needling fibers of the layer through the substrate to form loops extending from a second side of the substrate, removing end regions from at least some of the loops to form stems, and forming loop-engageable heads at free ends of at least some of the stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: James R. Barker, Christopher M. Gallant
  • Patent number: 9084701
    Abstract: A disposable wearable absorbent article having a hook and loop fastening system that comprises a nonwoven female fastening material and a male fastening material with a plurality of bidirectional micro-sized hooks, each having a cap and at least one arm. The height of each hook and cap may be defined relative to the overall thickness of the female fastening material. Caps may have a vertical engagement effective area that has: (a) at least two sides that are substantially parallel; (b) a width-to-thickness aspect ratio from 1 to 2; and (c) an area from 40,000 to 120,000 ?2. Caps may have an overall recessed width and a deepest recessed depth that is defined relative to the overall fiber cross-sectional dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nayda Liz RamosMedina, Michael Timothy Looney, Arman Ashraf, Mark James Kline, Thomas Alexander Horn, Thierry J. Marche, Olivier J. Blanc
  • Patent number: 9027211
    Abstract: A fastening strap and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The fastening strap includes a first band and a second band. The first band has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface has a plurality of hooks of special configuration. The second band has a third surface and a fourth surface. The third surface is directly adhered to the second surface of the first band, and the fourth surface has a plurality of loops for being mechanically latched by the hooks on the first surface. The second surface and/or the third surface is printed with at least one pattern. After the first band and the second band are adhered together, the pattern can be seen from the first surface of the first band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Paiho Limited
    Inventor: Sen-Mei Cheng
  • Patent number: 9015910
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a one piece multi-rib fastener including at least two groups of ribs, each rib with one or more hooks, wherein the groups are separated by a space less than the width of the maximum number of ribs within one of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Manuel Septien Rojas, Martin Offa-Jones, Steven Ausnit
  • Patent number: 8973225
    Abstract: A structured surface, which includes a thermoplastic backing sheet and a first upstanding element, is disclosed. The first upstanding element includes multiple, spaced-apart posts and a single cap at the distal ends of the multiple, spaced-apart posts. The structured surface furthermore typically includes a plurality of spaced-apart, upstanding posts with caps on their distal ends, where the ratio of the caps to the posts is less than one-to-one. Also disclosed is a method of making a structured surface. The method includes providing a thermoplastic backing sheet with a plurality of spaced-apart, upstanding posts; and deforming the distal ends to form caps on at least some of the spaced-apart, upstanding posts. At least some of the caps upon forming touch at least one adjacent cap to form a conjoined cap at the distal ends of multiple posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas P. Hanschen, Ronald W. Ausen, William J. Kopecky
  • Patent number: 8960251
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire designed so that when a hook and loop fastener is fitted to the tire internal face of a pneumatic tire furnished with an inner liner layer consisting of a thermoplastic elastomer composition of a blend of thermoplastic resin and elastomer, or a thermoplastic resin, the hook and loop fastener can easily follow the elongation of the inner liner layer and is free from damaging of the inner liner layer. There is disclosed a pneumatic tire furnished on its internal face with an inner liner layer (7) consisting of a thermoplastic elastomer composition composed of thermoplastic resin and elastomer, or a thermoplastic resin, characterized in that integral forming of a multiplicity of interlocking elements (8) protruding on the hollow side of the tire is effected on the surface of the inner layer (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 8935836
    Abstract: A sheet having fastening elements, including a base strip made of thermoplastic material and at least one element made from the strip, the element including a stem extending in a transverse, in particular vertical, direction to the plane of the base strip, and having a cross section which is substantially uniform or decreases from the base strip towards the apex of the stem, in particular as far as the apex of the stem, and a part forming a head which protrudes laterally from the apex of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Aplix
    Inventors: Lionel Picot, Jean-Pierre Ducauchuis
  • Patent number: 8910842
    Abstract: An expansible bicycle cargo rack includes a first member, a pivoting mechanism arranged on the first member, a second member arranged on the pivoting mechanism, wherein the second member is configured to rotate about the pivot mechanism between at least two positions, and an elastic member coupled between first member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Cycling Sports Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Dodman, Heath Edwin Corbet
  • Patent number: 8898867
    Abstract: A mounting device with one metallic base plate, from which a plurality of mounting eyelets protrude. The mounting device is obtainable by incising a plurality of arc-shaped eyelet blanks while leaving two connection sections per eyelet blank into the surface of the base plate and production of the mounting eyelets by bending the eyelet blanks out of the base plate around a bending edge in the area of the connection sections. At least part of the eyelet blanks are arranged as groups of eyelet blanks with the latter being nested to each other. Preferably, the groups of eyelet blanks are arranged rotated relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Hoelzel Stanz-und Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co. Kg, Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Braun, Gabi Carle, Kurt Hoehe, Bernd Ruess, Matthias Laske
  • Patent number: 8898869
    Abstract: A touch fastener has a base and an array of discrete fastener elements each extending from the base and together forming with the base a contiguous mass of resin. Each discrete fastener element includes a stem rising from the base, and a head overhanging the base from a front side of the stem to a distal edge, the front side of the stem, an underside of the head, and an upper surface of the base together forming, in side profile, a generally curved retention space boundary surface such that the boundary surface forms, at its innermost extent, a retention cavity defined between curvature discontinuities spaced from both the base and the distal edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: Almin Idrizovic, Christopher M. Gallant, William D. Grenier
  • Patent number: 8839495
    Abstract: A closure component has a plurality of closure components (12) with each disposed on a carrier part (10) by a footer (18). Each has a header (14) connected to the footer (18) by a shaft part (16). The header (14) is jointedly connected to the shaft part (16) by a hinge part (20). Because the footer (18) forms a further hinge part (22), by which the shaft part (16) is jointedly connected to the carrier part (10), improved adhesion to third components can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jan Tuma
  • Patent number: 8819902
    Abstract: An adhesive closure piece (10) includes a substrate part (12) and closure pieces (20a, 20b) of at least one type arranged upright on the substrate part. The closure pieces each have a head part (14a, 14b) having at its free end face at least one contact surface (22a, 22b) for detachably adhering to another component by adhesive force. The closure piece has at least one connection section (16a, 16b) on the edge of each head part (14a, 14b). The connection section protrudes beyond the edge of the head part (14a, 14b) in at least one direction (30, 36) such that the size of the contact surface (22a, 22b) of the corresponding head part (14a, 14b) is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jan Tuma
  • Patent number: 8756770
    Abstract: A fastening product, in the form of a flexible, sheet-form substrate (102) having a surface (108); a plurality of walls (104) extending from the surface (108) and defining therebetween an array (114) of cells (116) bounded by the walls (104) such that the walls separate adjacent cells of the array, the substrate (102) forming a floor (122) of each cell; and a plurality of fastener elements (106) extending from the surface (108) and interspersed among the cells (116). The fastener elements having heads (130) spaced above the surface (108) to define loop engagement overhangs (134) disposed within the cells. The cells (116) of the array (114) are arranged in columns (124) and rows (126), each column and each row comprising at least three of the cells, such that there exists at least one closed path (136) within the substrate (102) that fully circumscribes at least one of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Cina, David Nicholaus Zach, Earl Lorne Cowley, Patrick D. Todkill, Daniel Lee Janzen, Stephane Xavier Girard
  • Patent number: 8745827
    Abstract: A fastening strip for touch fasteners is provided which includes a corrugated portion as well as fastening elements. The corrugated portion allows the strip to be bent in a plane perpendicular as well as parallel with the longitudinal axis of the strip such that it may be applied to curved surfaces and remain substantially flat. Fastening elements such as hooks, loops, mushroom-shaped, bulbous and double hooks may be included on both sides of the strip and on the walls of the channels that form the corrugations as well as between the corrugations. The corrugated fastening strips may be useful for automotive seating and diaper applications. Processes for forming the corrugated fastening strip area also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventor: Gerald Rocha
  • Patent number: 8683840
    Abstract: To produce closure elements for metal touch-and-close fasteners in a metal carrier (3), notches (13) corresponding to the outlines of hook elements (1) are made, while leaving a connecting line for each notch. Bending operations are carried out to raise the regions delimited by the notches (13) out of the plane of the carrier (3) as hooking elements (1) around the connecting lines serving as bending lines. The carrier (3) is guided through the region (5) of the tooth engagement between rotational bodies (7, 9) having peripheral teeth. The tooth shapes of the rotational bodies (7, 9) and the type of the tooth engagement are selected such that the tooth engagement cuts the notches (13) and stamps the metal carrier the bending operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co.. KG
    Inventors: Jan Tuma, Metin Efe
  • Patent number: 8683664
    Abstract: A touch-and-close fastener part includes a two-dimensional carrier (1) and a main tang (7) extending from the carrier. The main tang has at least one secondary tang (9) located on it and supporting the main tang (7) on the carrier (1). The fastener part can be obtained as hooking elements (5), in particular by punching or cutting. The main tang (7) can be raised up about a bending line (13) forming a first connecting region with carrier (1), into a functional position over the carrier (1). The secondary tang (9) forms a connecting area lying against the carrier (1) and representing a second connecting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Tuma, Metin Efe
  • Patent number: 8615854
    Abstract: A fixturing apparatus (100), including a first fixturing surface (230), and a plurality of locking teeth (210) attached to and extending outwardly from that fixturing surface, wherein each locking tooth includes a parallelepiped comprising a rectangular base (310), a first rectangular side (320) attached to a first end of that rectangular base and extending outwardly therefrom, and a second rectangular side (330) attached to an opposing end of the rectangular base and extending outwardly therefrom, wherein a first rectangular side distal end (324) is attached to a second rectangular side distal end 336.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Inventor: Michael P. Fennell
  • Patent number: 8601648
    Abstract: A closure part, particularly for forming hermaphroditic closures, has at least one carrier band (16) with a web shape and at least one pair of surface regions (17a, 17b) arranged opposite of each other and connectable at least partially along a connecting region (19) to a main body (26) as third component. Individual closure bodies (2) at least in part of the surface regions (17a, 17b) are located outside of the connecting region (19) and adjacent to it. The bodies protrude from the carrier band (16) and form a fixing feature (24) for further closure parts of the same or different kinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Konstantinos Poulakis
  • Patent number: 8551377
    Abstract: A touch fastener strip includes a sheet-form material substrate having a front face, an array of fastener elements integrally molded with a resin base layer on the front face of the substrate and an array of discrete regions of resin (e.g., gripping elements) integrally molded with a resin base layer through apertures in the sheet-form material on the back face of the substrate. The array of fastener elements forms a discrete band of fastener elements extending longitudinally along the front face of the fastener strip, and the array of gripping elements forms a discrete band of gripping elements extending longitudinally along the back face of the fastener strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventor: Clinton Dowd
  • Patent number: 8522407
    Abstract: Object moulded in thermoplastic material in any shape having an outer surface from which protrudes at least one hook in one piece with the moulded object, in particular a hook field, the moulded object and the hook(s) having been formed by injection moulding, each hook comprising a base part and a head or hooking part protruding from the base part and being delimited by first and second lateral surfaces each extending on the outer surface of the moulded object, being separated from each other by an intermediate surface forming the edge of the hook, the curve sections, defined by the intersections of at least one of the first and/or second lateral surfaces with planes which are in parallel with the base plane from which the hook protrudes and which are at given distances h from this base plane, have a curvature which varies as a function of the distance h, the curvature of the curve section for h=0 (the base plane and said parallel plane merging) being greater than the curvature of at least one curve section f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Aplix
    Inventors: Antony Mahe, Quresh Sachee
  • Publication number: 20130219677
    Abstract: A touch fastener has a base and an array of discrete fastener elements each extending from the base and together forming with the base a contiguous mass of resin. Each discrete fastener element includes a stem rising from the base, and a head overhanging the base from a front side of the stem to a distal edge, the front side of the stem, an underside of the head, and an upper surface of the base together forming, in side profile, a generally curved retention space boundary surface such that the boundary surface forms, at its innermost extent, a retention cavity defined between curvature discontinuities spaced from both the base and the distal edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Velcro Industries B.V.